The Rebirth of an Ill-Fated Consort

Chapter 426 Confession (2)

"I didn't meet Wang Yushi that year, nor was I rehabilitated because of it. I stayed in Zhuangzi for eight years, and halfway through I learned that my elder brother died in battle. I thought life was so hopeless. The Shangshu Mansion in the capital seems to be Forgot me, I wrote many letters to my family, but I never received a reply. I thought that I would live in such a hard life on Zhuangzi until I died. Unexpectedly, in the eighth year, someone came from Beijing , I am very happy to take me back to the Shangshu Mansion, thinking that my father finally remembered me."

What she said was thoughtless, and if it was an ordinary person, she would definitely not understand what she was talking about, but Xiao Shao just stared at her silently, with complex emotions in his eyes, and the hand wearing a wristband Clenching his fists tightly, he tried his best to suppress the astonishment in his heart, and looked at her calmly as much as possible.

"I was taken back to the Shangshu Mansion, right in front of the gate of the Shangshu Mansion. Under the attention of all the onlookers, I was dressed in tatters and completely without manners. I accepted Xia Yan and Jiang Susu's affectionate greetings like a beggar. The more pure and kind she is like a fairy, the more she looks filthy to me, and at that moment, I feel deeply ashamed." She said these words in a flat tone, but her nails sank deeper and deeper: "Go back to Beijing Not long after, it was the annual Lantern Festival, on the Linglong boat. That time, you didn't come, and the noble children in Beijing were all there. Jiang Susu asked me to dance, so that I won't lose the face of the Shangshufu. She Tell me that I just need to dance the song and dance that Zhuangzi danced at the banquet to add to the fun, that day I fell from the Linglong boat and was picked up wet, and became the laughing stock of the whole capital."

Unconsciously, she pinched her nails deeper and deeper, and she didn't even realize that the blood stains appeared. There are many injuries in the world that will not fade with the passage of time, and it will not hurt when you think about it. When I think about it, every memory is painful and unwilling.At this moment, a slender and slightly cool hand stretched out, and gently pulled away her fingers that had been deeply pinched into the palm of her palm. Fearing that she would hurt herself again, she wrapped her little hand in his slender palm.

Jiang Ruan looked at his movements in a daze until he felt the warmth of his palms to understand.She took a deep breath, and her expression gradually calmed down: "Later, Jiang Susu and I attended various gatherings together in the name of the daughter-in-law of the Shangshu Mansion. Xia Yan invited a husband for me, but he never taught me how to read and write or manage Zhongji’s ability only says that women don’t need to learn those things, but let me learn singing, dancing and piano. I don’t know anything. When I go out with Jiang Susu every day, outsiders will only praise her for her beauty and art, but I am vulgar. A flamboyant, idiot beauty."

"Later on, the reputation of being an idiot beauty disappeared. Rumors spread in Beijing at some point. As early as in Zhuangzi, the matter of Chen Zhao bullying me was also brought out. It was only said that I didn't know how to love myself when I was young, and I knew how to seduce men. , It’s really a lack of virtue. I had just reached the age of Ji at that time, and my reputation was already bad.”

Xiao Shao slowly embraced her shoulders, straightened half of her body and leaned against his arms, only to find that Jiang Ruan's body was as stiff as a piece of wood, and her whole body It was tense, as if extremely tense.Xiao Shao patted her on the back, her comforting child-like gentleness made her relax a bit, Jiang Ruan continued: "When my reputation was so bad, there was only one person who always treated me kindly, and that was Ye Li."

Xiao Shao was stunned, his eyes darkened suddenly, Jiang Ruan didn't notice it, and his tone flashed a trace of sadness: "The day I made a fool of myself in Linglongfang, it was his eyes that disregarded everyone to comfort me, so I thought , he is kind and gentle in his bones. Later, he often came to Shangshufu to talk to Jiang Quan, and would bring me some small gifts. He never called me an idiot beauty like others, and he never looked at me with strange eyes. I, when Jiang Susu and I appeared at the same time, I would not only see Jiang Susu and ignore me. At that time, I was really happy."

"After I reach Ji, His Majesty will call a new batch of beautiful girls into the palace, but all concubines from official families can also enter the palace. But at that time, Jiang Xia's family was rising steadily, and the emperor had already become jealous. , called draft show, it’s better to say that the hostages were thrown in the palace to warn the Shangshufu. It doesn’t matter that Jiang Li and Jiang Dan are just concubine daughters, and the emperor will not be satisfied. Jiang Quan stopped Jiang Susu’s portrait and put me His portrait was reported up."

Xiao Shao stroked her hair, even now, when she talked about this matter, there was a trace of deep self-mockery in her tone.Perhaps one thing that Jiang Ruan has never figured out in her past and present lives is why Jiang Quan treated her like this.As the biological father and daughter, no matter how indifferent they are, it seems that treating an outsider is better than her.Even though the tiger's poison does not eat children, Jiang Quan and her may have had an old enmity in the previous life, and in this life they have to pay it off in the name of father and daughter.

"I don't want to enter the palace, I don't want to live with a man I have never met, and I don't want to fight with a lot of women in the deep palace. But Jiang Quan said, if I don't go, the whole Shangshu Palace will be punished for my waywardness." To be buried with me. Ye Li also persuaded me at that time, he said, he can always protect me in the palace, and one day, he will make me his legitimate wife."

Xiao Shao's eyes suddenly sank, even if it is something that hasn't happened yet, a woman who covets her is unforgivable.Besides, what Ye Li said was too arrogant.Now Ye Li's wife is not Jiang Ruan, and the competition between men has never been based on big words, but on real skills.

"I don't know how human nature is, so I believe it. Volunteer to replace Jiang Susu in the palace as a concubine." Jiang Ruan paused, and there seemed to be a look of love or gratitude from those in the Shangshu's mansion before entering the palace. Every word on his face is disgusting.If she knew that she was going to die for such a group of wolves who eat people and don't spit out their bones, even if she died, she would drag the entire Shangshu Mansion to be accused of deceiving the emperor to make amends.

"The days in the palace were the darkest days in my life. I was ridiculed by the concubine and bullied by the maid. Everyone knew that I was not favored, and sometimes I was even regarded as a dancer of the concubine's favorite concubine. , and I am not seen in the eyes at all. I have no family to rely on. In order to show their loyalty, the Shangshufu will not interfere with the affairs of the harem, and will never give me any support. They even hope that I will die. I won the emperor's apology." She didn't know what to think of, and she smiled slightly: "Later, the emperor gave Pei'er to me and raised him under my name. Pei'er was also an unfavorable prince in the palace. We are I am very grateful for the neglected person, maybe he was a gift from God to me in the previous life, knowing that I would not be able to survive alone, so he gave me such a child."

Hearing this, Xiao Shao's heart moved, and he suddenly understood why Ye Pei's expression on Jiang Ruan was very attached. Just as Guan Lianghan said inadvertently, Pei'er was like a baby bird attached to his mother to Jiang Ruan. If it was the mother and child in the previous life, It is indeed the same in this life, but in this way, it is possible that Peier also has the memory of the previous life.And until now, what Xiao Shao heard about Jiang Ruan's past was also very tragic, and he couldn't understand what Jiang Ruan had encountered.It's even more impossible to imagine that this powerful woman who doesn't care about everything has also experienced a time of helplessness and despair.

(End of this chapter)